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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Reckoning with Torture Launch and Behind the Scenes

Reckoning With Torture is a creative action to bring America's recent legacy of torture under public fire. PEN American contacted me to make a few seed videos for the project, launching this week under the direction of Doug Liman. Here's his introduction, and a few examples:

I'm excited to be part of kicking this thing off. Check out their site to learn more about how to film your own contributions, it's very simple and open to interpretation.

For my videos, I reached out to various communities (couchsurfing, my roommates, the bike world, anyone who would stand still long enough) and with them explored some great spots in New York. The following are some of my favorite images from the shoots, wether actual screenshots or things picked up along the way.

Bye

America, the Mid East, overground, underground. I hope to keep the ideas far-reaching. Please join into the mix via comments, and if you'd like to let me know about a thing or two please drop me an email